November 2021
Jen Oneal leaves Activision Blizzard
King, Blizzard push Activision Blizzard to Q3 growth
Netflix launches a streaming service of games
Gamigo reports that it has reached carbon neutrality
Niantic to shut down Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in 2022
Insomniac's Ted Price: Games studios must break the habit of brute-forcing through problems
How to get a job in the games industry
Statespace acquires ProGuides
Beamable raises over $10m in funding
Gaming arm Nuverse one of six pillars in reorganised ByteDance
Switch production reportedly drops 20% due to supply shortages
Roblox devs Splash raises $20m in series A
Temple Running the gamut of brand extensions
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update is now live
ACNH’s big free update is here ahead of the Happy Home Paradise DLC
Netflix’s You has the best narrator on television
Penn Badgley’s voice doesn’t just sound great, it makes the show transcendent
Blizzard co-leader Jen Oneal leaves for women-in-game development nonprofit
Mike Ybarra heads up Blizzard ‘effective immediately.’ Oneal will depart by year’s end
The Sims 4 is getting new DLC that will enable your millennial plant parent dreams
A separate free update will also bring playable story modes called ‘Scenarios’
Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 delayed, may be 2023 games
Blizzard Entertainment says both titles need more time
A sneak peek at the origin story of Critical Role’s Jester Lavorre
Four exclusive preview pages from the Dark Horse comic
Station Eleven teaser offers a first look at the post-apocalyptic series starring Mackenzie Davis
The 10-episode limited series premieres on HBO Max on Dec. 16
Far Cry 6 update fixes the ‘looping death’ bug and other progress blockers
A manual save system would’ve been nice With the way Far Cry 6 forces players to rely on autosaves, things...
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Moonrise Fund reveals the first three game studios it’s backing
Virtuoso Neomedia, Future Club, and Perfect Garbage will all receive support from the fund In January, Glitch founder Evva Karr...
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Street Fighter V All Character Pack is actually, maybe, probably, SFV’s last DLC drop
In case, five years later, you’re finally ready to fight In the five years since the release of Street Fighter...
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Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 feel even more elusive after a delay
More time needed for the games to reach their ‘full potential‘ During a Q3 2021 earnings report, Blizzard announced that...
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Blizzard co-leader Jen Oneal is leaving the company
Mike Ybarra will be taking over sole leadership of Blizzard One of Blizzard’s leaders has announced they’re stepping away from...
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Niantic’s Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is shutting down
The Pokemon Go follow-up is closing its doors in January Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is gradually shutting down over the coming months. Niantic...
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Frantic Xbox 360 shmup Eschatos is headed to PS4 and Switch
Localizations also headed westward Today is a day, and that means that it’s time for another old-school shmup to announce...
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Marvel’s Avengers is removing its paid consumables
Both purchasable Hero’s Catalysts and Fragment Extractors will leave the shop today Crystal Dynamics has announced it will be removing...
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Fortnite China to shut down servers on November 15
No Man Standing China’s version of Fortnite is to close down following three years of service. The phenomenally popular battle...
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Netflix Games launches on Android devices tomorrow
It arrives with five games, coming to iOS in the future too Netflix is launching its library of video games...
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Sakurai talks about the future of Super Smash Bros. in new interview
I really hope he gets a break first With the release of Sora as the final DLC character for Super Smash...
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Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is getting a digital manga adaptation
Further adventures of the harvest goddess Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is proving to be quite a successful IP, despite...
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Nikkei contends that Switch production is down 20% this fiscal year due to semiconductor shortage (Update)
Expect this to last at least through 2022 [Update: In a brand new Q&A session, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirms...
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Gary Bowser changes plea to guilty in Nintendo vs. Team Xecuter piracy lawsuit
Ongoing ROM piracy case continues Gary Bowser, the associate of long-time hack-maker Team Xecuter, has revised their plea in the...
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This fascinating video breaks down Nintendo’s shaky history with N64 emulation
At first it was way up, then slowly declined Modern Vintage Gamer (MVG) recently touched upon something a lot of...
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Guilty Gear Strive teases ‘She Is Coming’ and could it be Mariah Carey?
Make my wish come true… Arc System Works appears to be teasing the next DLC combatant headed to the roster...
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It looks like Game & Watch Zelda handheld allows dual region game versions
Japanese and the western localization So the Game & Watch Zelda device is set to arrive on November 12, but...
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Tetris: The Grand Master home port seemingly announced via delay of announcement
Gotta Drop the Block In a muddled set of circumstances, it appears that excellent arcade puzzler Tetris: The Grand Master...
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